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Religion and the Individual

Author : Abby Day
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317067800
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Religion and the Individual written by Abby Day and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does religion mean to the individual? How are people religious and what do their beliefs, practices and identities mean to them? The individual's place within studies of religion has tended to be overlooked recently in favour of macro analyses. Religion and the Individual draws together authors from around the world to explore belief, practice and identity. Using original case studies and other work firmly placed in the empirical, contributors discuss what religious belief means to the individual. They examine how people embody what religion means to them through practice, considering the different meanings that people attach to religion and the social expressions of their personal understandings and the ways in which religion shapes how people see themselves in relation to others. This work is cross-cultural, with contributions from Asia, Europe and North America.

Christianity

Author : Matt Stefon Assistant Editor, Religion
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1615304932
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book Christianity written by Matt Stefon Assistant Editor, Religion and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the basic doctrines, history, and religious practices of Christianity, including Christian concepts of human nature, and profiles famous Christian figures throughout history.

Globalizing Theology

Author : Craig Ott
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 1441201343
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book Globalizing Theology written by Craig Ott and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2006-10-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most powerful forces in the twenty-first century is the increasing phenomenon of globalization. In nearly every realm of human activity, traditional boundaries are disappearing and people worldwide are more interconnected than ever. Christianity has also become more aware of global realities and the important role of the church in non-Western countries. Church leaders must grapple with the implications for theology and ministry in an ever-shrinking world. Globalizing Theology is a groundbreaking book that addresses these issues of vital importance to the church. It contains articles from leading scholars, including Tite Tiénou, Kevin Vanhoozer, Charles Van Engen, M. Daniel Carroll R., Andrew Walls, Vinoth Ramachandra, and Paul Hiebert. Topics covered include the challenges that globalization brings to theology, how we can incorporate global perspectives into our thinking, and the effect a more global theology has on a variety of important issues.

Lived Religion

Author : Meredith B. McGuire
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Lived Religion written by Meredith B. McGuire and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The divergence of religious practices from one individual to another has long baffled scholars of religion. In this book Meredith McGuire points the way forward toward a way of understanding and studying religious behaviour by exploring the many ways that people express themselves spiritually.

Hallowed Secularism

Author : B. Ledewitz
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230619525
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Hallowed Secularism written by B. Ledewitz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-03-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bruce Ledewitz proposes a Reformation in secular thinking. He shows that in opposition to today's aggressive Atheism, religious sources are necessary if secularism is to promote fulfilling human relationships and peaceful international relations. Amid signs that secularism is growing in unhealthy ways, Ledewitz proposes a new secular way to live.

Judaism

Author : E. P. Sanders
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1506408176
Total Pages : 922 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Judaism written by E. P. Sanders and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this now-classic work, E. P. Sanders argues against prevailing views regarding the Judaism of the Second Temple period, for example, that the Pharisees dominated Jewish Palestine or that the Mishnah offers a description of general practice. In contrast, Sanders carefully shows that what was important was the "common Judaism" of the people with their observances of regular practices and the beliefs that informed them. Sanders discusses early rabbinic legal material not as rules, but as debates within the context of real life. He sets Pharisees, Sadducees, and Essenes in relation to the Judaism of ordinary priests and people. Here then is a remarkably comprehensive presentation of Judaism as a functioning religion: the temple and its routine and festivals; questions of purity, sacrifices, tithes, and taxes; common theology and hopes for the future; and descriptions of the various parties and groups culminating in an examination of the question "who ran what?" Sanders offers a detailed, clear, and well-argued account of all aspects of Jewish religion of the time.

Religion, Belief and Social Work

Author : Furness, Sheila
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1861349815
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (613 download)

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Download or read book Religion, Belief and Social Work written by Furness, Sheila and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2009-11-18 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how religion and related beliefs have varied impacts on the needs and perceptions of practitioners, service users, and the support networks available to them. The authors argue that social workers need to understand these phenomena, so that they can become more confident in challenging discriminatory and oppressive practices. The centrality of religion and associated beliefs in the lives of many is emphasised, as are their potentially liberating (and potentially negative) impacts. In line with the Social Work in Practice series style, the book allows readers to explore issues in depth. It focuses on knowledge transmission, and the encouragement of critical reflection on practice. Each chapter is built around 'real-life' case scenarios using a problem-based learning approach. This book is the first to deal with social work and religion so comprehensively and will therefore be essential reading not only for social work students, but also for practitioners in a range of areas, social work academics and researchers in the UK and beyond.

Why Religion?

Author : Elaine Pagels
Publisher : HarperLuxe
ISBN 13 : 9780062860989
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Why Religion? written by Elaine Pagels and published by HarperLuxe. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is religion still around in the twenty-first century? Why do so many still believe? And how do various traditions still shape the way people experience everything from sexuality to politics, whether they are religious or not? In Why Religion? Elaine Pagels looks to her own life to help address these questions. These questions took on a new urgency for Pagels when dealing with unimaginable loss—the death of her young son, followed a year later by the shocking loss of her husband. Here she interweaves a personal story with the work that she loves, illuminating how, for better and worse, religious traditions have shaped how we understand ourselves; how we relate to one another; and, most importantly, how to get through the most difficult challenges we face. Drawing upon the perspectives of neurologists, anthropologists, and historians, as well as her own research, Pagels opens unexpected ways of understanding persistent religious aspects of our culture. A provocative and deeply moving account from one of the most compelling religious thinkers at work today, Why Religion? explores the spiritual dimension of human experience.

Changing the Church

Author : Mark D. Chapman
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030534251
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Changing the Church written by Mark D. Chapman and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-13 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, dedicated to the memory of Gerard Mannion (1970-2019), former Joseph and Winifred Amaturo Chair in Catholic Studies at Georgetown University, explores the topic of changing the church from a range of different theological perspectives. The volume contributors offer answers to questions such as: What needs to be changed in the universal church and in the particular denominations? How has change influenced the life of the church? What are the dangers that change brings with it? What awaits the church if it refuses to change? Many of the essays focus on people who have changed the church significantly and on events that have catalyzed change, for the better or for the worse. Some also present visions of change for particular Christian denominations, whether over the ordination of the women, different approaches to sexuality, reform of the magisterium, and many other issues related to change.

Pragmatic Encroachment, Religious Belief and Practice

Author : A. Rizzieri
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781349436033
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Pragmatic Encroachment, Religious Belief and Practice written by A. Rizzieri and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engaging several recent and important discussions in the mainstream epistemological literature surrounding 'pragmatic encroachment', the volume asks, amongst others, the question: Do the high stakes involved in accepting or rejecting belief in God raise the standards for knowledge that God exists?

Pragmatic Encroachment in Epistemology

Author : Brian Kim
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351685244
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Pragmatic Encroachment in Epistemology written by Brian Kim and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-25 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to philosophical lore, epistemological orthodoxy is a purist epistemology in which epistemic concepts such as belief, evidence, and knowledge are characterized to be pure and free from practical concerns. In recent years, the debate has focused narrowly on the concept of knowledge and a number of challenges have been posed against the orthodox, purist view of knowledge. While the debate about knowledge is still a lively one, the pragmatic exploration in epistemology has just begun. This collection takes on the task of expanding this exploration into new areas. It discusses how the practical might encroach on all areas of our epistemic lives from the way we think about belief, confidence, probability, and evidence to our ideas about epistemic value and excellence. The contributors also delve into the ramifications of pragmatic views in epistemology for questions about the value of knowledge and its practical role. Pragmatic Encroachment in Epistemology will be of interest to a broad range of epistemologists, as well as scholars working on virtue theory and practical reason.

Vernacular Religion in Everyday Life

Author : Marion Bowman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317543548
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Vernacular Religion in Everyday Life written by Marion Bowman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vernacular religion is religion as people experience, understand, and practice it. It shapes everyday culture and disrupts the traditional boundaries between 'official' and 'folk' religion. The book analyses vernacular religion in a range of Christian denominations as well as in indigenous and New Age religion from the nineteenth century to today. How these differing expressions of belief are shaped by their individual, communal and national contexts is also explored. What is revealed is the consistency of genres, the persistence of certain key issues, and how globalization in all its cultural and technological forms is shaping contemporary faith practice. The book will be valuable to students of ethnology, folklore, religious studies, and anthropology.

Belief and Practice

Author : Will Spens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Belief and Practice written by Will Spens and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

How God Becomes Real

Author : T.M. Luhrmann
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691211981
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book How God Becomes Real written by T.M. Luhrmann and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hard work required to make God real, how it changes the people who do it, and why it helps explain the enduring power of faith How do gods and spirits come to feel vividly real to people—as if they were standing right next to them? Humans tend to see supernatural agents everywhere, as the cognitive science of religion has shown. But it isn’t easy to maintain a sense that there are invisible spirits who care about you. In How God Becomes Real, acclaimed anthropologist and scholar of religion T. M. Luhrmann argues that people must work incredibly hard to make gods real and that this effort—by changing the people who do it and giving them the benefits they seek from invisible others—helps to explain the enduring power of faith. Drawing on ethnographic studies of evangelical Christians, pagans, magicians, Zoroastrians, Black Catholics, Santeria initiates, and newly orthodox Jews, Luhrmann notes that none of these people behave as if gods and spirits are simply there. Rather, these worshippers make strenuous efforts to create a world in which invisible others matter and can become intensely present and real. The faithful accomplish this through detailed stories, absorption, the cultivation of inner senses, belief in a porous mind, strong sensory experiences, prayer, and other practices. Along the way, Luhrmann shows why faith is harder than belief, why prayer is a metacognitive activity like therapy, why becoming religious is like getting engrossed in a book, and much more. A fascinating account of why religious practices are more powerful than religious beliefs, How God Becomes Real suggests that faith is resilient not because it provides intuitions about gods and spirits—but because it changes the faithful in profound ways.

In the Course of a Lifetime

Author : Michele Dillon
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520940032
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book In the Course of a Lifetime written by Michele Dillon and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-03-20 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Course of a Lifetime provides an unprecedented portrait of the dynamic role religion plays in the everyday experiences of Americans over the course of their lives. The book draws from a unique sixty-year-long study of close to two hundred mostly Protestant and Catholic men and women who were born in the 1920s and interviewed in adolescence, and again in the 1950s, 1970s, 1980s, and late 1990s. Woven throughout with rich, intimate life stories, the book presents and analyzes a wide range of data from this study on the participants' religious and spiritual journeys. A testament to the vibrancy of religion in the United States, In the Course of a Lifetime provides an illuminating and sometimes surprising perspective on how individual lives have intersected with cultural change throughout the decades of the twentieth century.

Knowing and Doing

Author : John McQuoid
Publisher : Anchor Books
ISBN 13 : 9781907098031
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Knowing and Doing written by John McQuoid and published by Anchor Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Principles of Belief and Practices of Faith: A Guide to Successful Living

Author : Beresford Adams
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557084350
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Principles of Belief and Practices of Faith: A Guide to Successful Living written by Beresford Adams and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we apply principles of belief to life experiences they become practices of faith. Following these principles and practices can lead us to happy and fulfilling lives.